Useful Links

Brighton Collaboration

The Brighton Collaboration is committed to making reliable information available so that vaccine recipients and decision makers can evaluate vaccine benefits and risks accurately.

Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations

The Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) is a global partnership between public, private, philanthropic and civil society organisations to develop and make accessible vaccines and other countermeasures to stop future disease epidemics.

COVID-19 vaccine tracker

The tracker, developed by the Vaccine Centre at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, is an interactive database that provides COVID-19 vaccine candidate tracking data as they progress through the developmental pipeline.

Gavi

Gavi, officially the Vaccine Alliance, is a public–private global health partnership that supports countries to strengthen primary healthcare to save lives and protect people's health by increasing equitable and sustainable use of vaccines.

ICMRA statement about confidence in vaccine safety and effectiveness

The International Coalition of Medicines Regulatory Authorities (ICMRA) consists of leaders of international medicines regulatory authorities and ministries of health, with the World Health Organization as an observer, to facilitate strategic leadership and greater cooperation of international medicines authorities on shared regulatory issues and challenges.

Institute for Vaccine Safety

The Institute for Vaccine Safety provides an independent assessment of vaccines and vaccine safety to help guide decision makers and educate physicians, the public and the media about key issues surrounding the safety of vaccines. The institute’s goal is to work toward preventing disease using the safest vaccines possible.

Melbourne Vaccine Education Centre

Melbourne Vaccine Education Centre (MVEC) is a website for health professionals, parents, and the public that provides immunisation information addressing common queries around vaccines and that promotes the benefits of immunisation. 

National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance

The National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance (NCIRS) provides expert advice on vaccine preventable disease and immunisation to inform policy and planning for immunisation services in Australia.

Our World in Data, COVID-19 vaccination

Our World in Data provides global COVID-19 vaccination tracking data in an interactive database, including total vaccinations, per capita vaccinations, daily vaccination rates, and policies.

The Vaccine Confidence Project

The Vaccine Confidence project has a system for early detection of public concerns about vaccines and identify whether those concerns could disrupt vaccine programmes and uptake. Their work helps to inform strategies and designs for immunisation programmes and resources for the communities they. 

Vaccine Education Center

The Vaccine Education Center is located at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia provides complete, up-to-date and reliable information about vaccines to parents and healthcare professionals.

Vaccine monitoring Collaboration for Europe

The Vaccine monitoring Collaboration for Europe (VAC4EU) provides robust and timely evidence-generation on the effects of vaccines in a collaborative manner in Europe. Their website includes an interactive dashboard that identifies the background rates of adverse events of special interest (AESI) for COVID-19 vaccines in seven European countries.

Vaccine Safety References

Provided through the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, the Vaccine Safety References library provides a topical list of peer reviewed journal articles, each with a brief summary and link, to support clinicians and others answering questions from parents and the public about vaccine safety concerns.

Vaccine Safety Datalink

The Vaccine Safety Datalink (VSD) is a collaborative project between the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Immunization Safety Office and nine health care organisations. They monitor the safety of vaccines and conduct studies about rare and serious adverse events following immunisation using electronic, large linked health databases. 

World Health Organization

The World Health Organization (WHO) is a specialised agency of the United Nations dedicated to global health and safety. Among other things, the WHO works to ensure that every person is protected from vaccine-preventable diseases. Their website includes information on:

• COVID-19 vaccines
  Includes data on the global landscape of COVID-19 vaccines, a COVID-19 vaccination dashboard that summarises officially reported COVID-19 vaccination data, public advice, and vaccine recommendations from the Strategic Advisory Group of Experts on Immunization (SAGE).

• Immunisation
  Includes information on global immunisation coverage for protection against diseases including diphtheria, influenza, measles, poliomyelitis, rubella, and tetanus, and information and resources for the Immunization Agenda 2030: A Global Strategy to Leave No One Behind.